Panerai Watches

In 1860, Giovanni Panerai founded Officine Panerai in Florence to manufacture precision nautical instruments. The impressive durability and legibility of Panerai's early creations prompted the Royal Italian Navy, in 1938, to commission a diver's watch for its frogmen commandos that could resist even the most extreme underwater pressure.

Over the past decade, Panerai has become one of the most coveted sport-luxury watch brands in the world. In fact, many watch insiders believe that it is Panerai's ongoing success with unusually large watches, such as the Radiomir and Luminor, that has prompted many of the most storied Swiss watchmakers to begin introducing their own larger watch models.